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Shandaken Art Studio Tour 2013

July 19, 2013 - 11:00am - July 21, 2013 - 6:00pm

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Better with Trout

By peter
8/18/12 - 3:36 pm

Once again, leaping trout are on display throughout the community of Woodstock, Olive and Shandaken! Get a map at local businesses or online and follow the Art Trail. The Leaping Trout Art Project is a community art initiative sponsored by The Ashokan-Pepacton Watershed Chapter of Trout Unlimited to raise awareness of the importance or our coldwater resources. This year, the project involves 35 artists. More information and to bid on a trout, including the one above, visit http://www.theleapingtrout.com.

Ninth Annual SHANDAKEN DAY in Pine Hill

By ShandakenSuper
8/9/12 - 10:53 am

Shandaken Day is a free annual event for the family providing Live Music, Arts and Crafts Booths, Kids Games and great Catskill Mountain Fare. This year's event is being hosted by the Hamlet of Pine Hill on Main Street from 10am until 6pm. This year's event, aside from the usual celebration of all the organizations that make Shandaken a great place to live, work and visit, will be higlighting the recent designation of the Hamlet of Pine Hill as a State Historic Site. There is a kids day-long scavenger hunt where they can hunt for several unique buildings and historic features of the Hamlet.

A "Let's Move" ZUMBA dance will take place for all ages from 11am until 2pm at the Pine Hill Community Center.

Live Music to be performed by the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, Ben Rounds Band and Earl Pardini and the Slide Mountain String Band. Read more

Phoenicia Young Writers' Creative Writing Contest

By Phoenicia Library
7/12/12 - 5:35 pm

Phoenicia Library's first-ever creative writing contest for young writers! Open to ages 5-24. Click here (http://phoenicia.lib.ny.us/2012/06/29/phoenicia-young-writers-creative-writing-contest/) to receive an entry form to submit your writing! Contest closes July 27th at 5pm.

Rita Schwab at the Shandaken Art Studio Tour 2012

By Dave Channon
7/10/12 - 1:40 pm

Rita Schwab will open her Irene ravaged art studio in Mt. Tremper for the upcoming tour on July 21-22. A heroic effort! Just off the intersection of Rte 28 and Rte 212. Also- tune in to The Roundtable on WAMC July 19 at 11:30 AM. Tour organizers Judith Singer and Dave Channon will do an interview on The Shandaken Art Studio Tour.

The SHARP Committee is still distributing Grants to Shandaken residents

By SHARP
5/9/12 - 4:27 pm

Thanks to the “Shelter from the Storm” benefit concerts at the UPAC and Levon Helm Studios this past Winter, The SHARP Committee, located in Phoenicia, New York, is still distributing Grants to Shandaken residents for home rehabilitation and other needs associated with the effects of last year’s devastating floods. Up to $2500.00 per home will be awarded to those in need.

Call SHARP at 688-5777 for more information about this or other relief funds available to Shandaken residents.

Ulster County officials take sides in railroad battle

By Lissa Harris
6/12/13 - 3:16 pm

Above: The Catskill Mountain Railroad's Kingston City Shuttle. Photo from the Catskill Mountain Railroad website.

An ongoing battle between rail and trail supporters intensified this week, when the chair of Ulster County's Railroad Advisory Committee (RAC) resigned in protest of "closed door meetings" held by the county to discuss the future of the railroad corridor. Read more

Flood watches in effect across Catskills region

By Lissa Harris
6/12/13 - 10:58 am

Above: 24-hour precipitation forecast for Thursday, June 13, issued Wednesday, June 12. Source: National Weather Service.

Heavy rain is expected to fall across southeastern New York, northeastern Pennsylvania and New England on Thursday, prompting flood watches across the region.

Flood watches have been declared across all five Catskills counties. A flood watch declared by the National Weather Service in Albany, covering Ulster, Greene and Schoharie counties, is in effect from Thursday morning through Saturday morning. In the western Catskills, Delaware and Sullivan counties are under a flood watch from Thursday morning to Friday morning. Read more

Cuomo administration pushes tax-free business scheme to skeptical Catskills audience

By Julia Reischel
6/7/13 - 3:13 pm

Above: Dierdre Scozzafava, the Deputy Secretary of State for Local Government, presented the Cuomo administration's proposed "Tax-Free NY" legislation at SUNY Delhi on June 6, 2013. Photo by Julia Reischel.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's rush to pass an ambitious new corporate tax break program met with skepticism from an audience of Delaware County officials and business owners at SUNY Delhi on Thursday.

With only eight days to go in the current state legislative session, Cuomo hopes to get lawmakers to pass Tax-Free NY, a sweeping tax program that would lift taxes on corporations and their employees if they create new jobs within one mile of any SUNY campus. Read more

Andrea swings by Catskills; only minor flooding expected

By Lissa Harris
6/7/13 - 12:39 pm

Above: A screenshot from the NWS's river forecast page. Dots indicate USGS streamgauges; the color indicates whether flooding is forecast over the next 48 hours. All gauges in the Catskills region are either green (no flooding forecast) or yellow (near flood stage forecast).

Tropical Storm Andrea is moving northward up the East Coast, bringing heavy rains along with it. But the Catskills region is likely to escape the brunt of the storm's wrath as it passes by to the east of the region. Read more

Flood watches declared as two storms move toward Catskills

By Lissa Harris
6/6/13 - 6:00 pm

Above: A screenshot of a National Weather Service image showing the projected 5-day track of Tropical Storm Andrea as it moves up the East Coast, as of Thursday afternoon. For a current image, check the NWS's Tropical Storm Andrea page.

Heavy rains and possible flooding are in store for the Catskills region this weekend, starting Friday morning, as the area braces for two storm systems moving into the region.

First on the forecast is a rainstorm moving through the region from the west, beginning Thursday night and continuing into Friday. By Friday afternoon, a tropical storm dubbed "Andrea" will move in from the south, dumping more rain onto an already-saturated landscape. Andrea is not expected to strengthen into a hurricane, but is forecast to bring heavy rains and high winds to a wide swath of the eastern U.S. Read more

Nobody puts Davy in a corner

By Julia Reischel
5/29/13 - 4:53 pm

Above: Davy Crockett, Phoenicia's Main Street mascot, hangs out behind Sportman's Alamo Cantina while his normal spot out front undergoes some spiffiing up. Photo by Laura Levine, the owner of Mystery Spot Antiques, which is located next door. The Mystery Spot is kicking off its free Music for Front Porches concert series on Saturday, June 1, at 1pm with the singer-songwriter Alessi Laurent-Marke.

If you've passed through Phoenicia in recent weeks, you may have noticed a certain someone missing from Main Street. A tall, racoon-capped tall statue of Davy Crockett usually looms over the front patio of the Sportman's Alamo Cantina, dominating Main Street with his leathery grin. Read more